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John Gill
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.. These words being inserted in the discourse concerning the vine and branches, and the pruning and purging them to make them fruitful, are thought, by the learned Dr. Lightfoot, to be an allusion to the law in Leviticus 19:23; by which the fruit of trees, for the first three years, were accounted uncircumcised or unclean, and in the...
Matthew Henry
It is generally agreed that Christ's discourse in this and the next chapter was at the close of the last supper, the night in which he was betrayed, and it is a continued discourse, not interrupted as that in the foregoing chapter was; and what he chooses to discourse of is very pertinent to the present sad occasion of a farewell sermon. Now that he was about to leave them, I. They would be...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean [purged] through the word which I have spoken unto you. The Word is often the knife with which the great Husbandman prunes the vine; and, brothers and sisters, if we were more willing to feel the edge of the Word, and to let it cut away even something that may be very dear to us, we should not need so much pruning by affliction. It is because that first knife does not always...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. Give good heed to that sweet word, beloved brethren, “Abide in me.” Do not seem to get into Christ, and then depart from him. Add constancy to all your other graces.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean — Those to whom the Saviour spoke: “Now ye are clean” — Joh_15:3. Through the word which I have spoken unto you. That is the great purger. Affliction is used, but it is rather the handle of the knife than the knife itself.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Dear friends, beware of a Christless Christianity. Beware of trying to be Christians without living daily upon Christ. The branch may just as well try to bear fruit apart from the vine as for you...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean-- For so it should be. Joh_15:3. Through the word which I have spoken unto you. While Christ was with his disciples he kept his vine continually pruned by the word which he spoke. That word cut off the non-fruit-bearing-branches, for we read that after that saying there were some that went back, and walked no more with him, for they said, “’This is a hard saying; who can bear...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Christ had so dealt with his disciples that he left them like a pruned vine, ready and prepared for fruitfulness.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. That was a “word” which had sorely grieved them, and cut them to the quick, so that the Saviour had to say to them, more than once, “Let not your heart be troubled.” (See the 1st, and the 27th, verses of the preceding chapter.) They had felt the sharp edge of the pruning-knife, so Jesus said to them, “Now ye are clean (purged or...